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The Peter Police Principle
There’s a business management theory out there which was coined by Dr Laurence Peter called the “Peter Principle”, that puts forward that people are promoted to the level of their incompetency and that...
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Police Efforts Against Accountability Never Stop
As Radley Balko at The Agitator reports today in regards to a recent San Francisco Appeal article, newly minted San Francisco police chief George Gascón wants to implement an “amnesty program” for the...
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Is There More To Dolton Than Meets The Eye?
Members of a militaristic looking Dolton Illinois police department using an armored personnel carrier during a standoff in 2008There’s trouble in Dolton Illinois, and it may go beyond the highly...
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207 Times
Some might recall Fort Worth Texas for settling a lawsuit for $50,000 to a deaf man who’s nose was broken by a police officer for trying to explain to the cop that he was deaf and couldn’t understand...
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With Leaders Like These…
According to the DOJ/FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program there are 14,169 county and city law enforcement agencies that participate in their UCR statistics gathering project on crime rates in the...
View ArticleThe Chicago Solution?
On the same day a study released a damning report finding that Chicago’s civil service review board overturns decisions to discipline police officers found to have committed acts of misconduct in a...
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2009 NPMSRP Semi-Annual Police Misconduct Statistics Report -UPDATED
UPDATE: For more current statistics, including our 2009 Annual Report that contains all data from 2009, please visit our Police Misconduct Statistical Report menu page.Adding local law enforcement...
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NPMSRP 2009 Preliminary Police Misconduct Statistical Report
Non-interactive push-pin map of police misconduct incidents recorded by the NPMSRP within the last 8.5 months of 2009NOTE: To see the reports that were used to generate this map please refer to the...
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Does Honesty Kill?
Something interesting caught my eye the other day as I was reading Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice blog. Apparently, FoxNews ran a piece the other day in which a professor from the John Jay College...
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Is There a Police Brutality Problem in Denver?
Image of a t-shirt that was sold by the Denver police union as a way to thank their member officers for what they did during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in a way that mocked allegations of...
View ArticleA Premature Alarm Regarding Police Fatality Rates
The big law enforcement related news piece dominating the media today comes courtesy of a press release from the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (LEOMF) insisting that an apparent increase in...
View ArticleRahm’s Choice?
Chicago Illinois mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel picked Newark New Jersey police director Garry McCarthy to be Chicago’s new police chief. The soon to be chief declared that “I’ll have cops’ backs” in...
View ArticleChicago Police Misconduct Cases Drag on for Years
From the Chicago Tribune:A Chicago police officer cracked Greg Larkins’ head open with a baton back in 2006, requiring him to be stitched up at a hospital.Within a few days, several relatives of...
View ArticleA Survey on How Cities and Counties Handle Police Oversight
From the Connection Newspapers:The National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement supports member cities and counties with citizen police oversight functions. Its U.S. membership is...
View ArticleStudy Finds Crime Report Manipulation in NYPD
From today’s New York Times:An anonymous survey of nearly 2,000 retired officers found that the manipulation of crime reports — downgrading crimes to lesser offenses and discouraging victims from...
View ArticleGerman Bosque ‘Joked About His Record of Misconduct’
From the Miami Herald:He has been accused of cracking the head of a handcuffed suspect, beating juveniles, hiding drugs in his police car, stealing from suspects, defying direct orders and lying and...
View ArticlePolice and Prosecutorial Misconduct in Texas
From the Dallas Observer:He stood, encircled by reporters. After some thank yous, he lit the fuse: “I want to say that me and my lawyer, Cheryl Wattley, we’ll make a formal complaint against Thomas...
View ArticleWhen “Just Following Procedure” is a Crime Under the Color of Law
From the Orlando Sentinel:Officials stood by two Casselberry officers who tased a man three times after he refused to show them his identification.“They followed procedure. They followed the law,”...
View Article‘She was more afraid of the police’
Opinion column from the New York Times:I MET her at 2 a.m. on a cold and windy morning in Washington, when she ran over to the outreach van to get a warm cup of coffee. Volunteers were offering condoms...
View Article10 Days in the Police Academy, 14 Years on Disability
From the Chicago Sun-Times:Barnes is one of two officers collecting disability because of injuries sustained while still in the police academy.The other, Michael Terrano, injured a knee 17 years ago,...
View ArticlePolice Union to Police Chief: ‘We’re just going to kick your butt anyways,...
From the Oregonian:In the past three decades, Portland police chiefs have fired officers who were convicted of driving drunk off duty, leaving dead animals outside a black-owned business, and selling...
View ArticlePolice Exempt from Red Light Cameras?
From the DemocratandChronicle.com:Over the past 18 months, city of Rochester employees have committed at least 119 red light violations while driving city vehicles, records show.But while employees can...
View ArticleWhen the Commanders Order Cops to Cover It All Up
When police officers report police misconduct, is that free speech protected by the Constitution? Or can they be punished because they went outside of the chain of command? Does it make any...
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